Chapter 15<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> It happened after this, that Absalom prepared him a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, Of what city are you? He said, Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> Absalom said to him, Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized of the king to hear you.<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> It was so, that when any man came near to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him.<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> In this manner Absalom did to all Israel who came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> It happened at the end of forty years, that Absalom said to the king, please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> For your servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh.<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> The king said to him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron.<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, Absalom is king in Hebron.<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> With Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, who were invited, and went in their simplicity; and they didn't know anything.<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> There came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for else none of us shall escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.<\/p><\/div>\n

2 Samuel 18:6\u201318<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter 18<\/h4>

6<\/small><\/span> So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> The people of Israel were struck there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> Joab said to the man who told him, Behold, you saw it, and why didn't you strike him there to the ground? and I would have given you ten [pieces of] silver, and a sash.<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> The man said to Joab, Though I should receive a thousand [pieces of] silver in my hand, I still wouldn't put forth my hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the king charged you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hid from the king), then you yourself would have set yourself against [me].<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> Then said Joab, I may not wait thus with you. He took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> Ten young men who bore Joab's armor compassed about and struck Absalom, and killed him.<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held back the people.<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> They took Absalom, and cast him into the great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones: and all Israel fled everyone to his tent.<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king's dale; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in memory: and he called the pillar after his own name; and it is called Absalom's monument, to this day.<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

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#9: The Religious Leaders Plot To Have Jesus Killed<\/strong>
\nJohn 11:45-57<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter 11<\/h4>

45<\/small><\/span> Therefore many of the Jews, who came to Mary and saw that which Jesus did, believed in him.<\/p>

46<\/small><\/span> But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things which Jesus had done.<\/p>

47<\/small><\/span> The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, \"What are we doing? For this man does many signs.<\/p>

48<\/small><\/span> If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.\"<\/p>

49<\/small><\/span> But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, \"You know nothing at all,<\/p>

50<\/small><\/span> nor do you take account that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.\"<\/p>

51<\/small><\/span> Now he didn't say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,<\/p>

52<\/small><\/span> and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.<\/p>

53<\/small><\/span> So from that day forth they took counsel that they might put him to death.<\/p>

54<\/small><\/span> Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.<\/p>

55<\/small><\/span> Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover, to purify themselves.<\/p>

56<\/small><\/span> Then they sought for Jesus and spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple, \"What do you think? Isn't he coming to the feast?\"<\/p>

57<\/small><\/span> Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

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#8: Judah Fathers A Child with His Daughter-In-Law<\/strong>
\nGenesis 38:1-30<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter 38<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> It happened at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her, and went in to her.<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er.<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan.<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him.<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh. Yahweh killed him.<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> Judah said to Onan, \"Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother.\"<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> Onan knew that the seed wouldn't be his; and it happened, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> The thing which he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he killed him also.<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, \"Remain a widow in your father's house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;\" for he said, \"Lest he also die, like his brothers.\" Tamar went and lived in her father's house.<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> After many days, Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep-shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> It was told Tamar, saying, \"Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.\"<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn't given to him as a wife.<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> He turned to her by the way, and said, \"Please come, let me come in to you:\" for he didn't know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, \"What will you give me, that you may come in to me?\"<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> He said, \"I will send you a kid of the goats from the flock.\" She said, \"Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?\"<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> He said, \"What pledge will I give you?\" She said, \"Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.\" He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, but he didn't find her.<\/p>

21<\/small><\/span> Then he asked the men of her place, saying, \"Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?\" They said, \"There has been no prostitute here.\"<\/p>

22<\/small><\/span> He returned to Judah, and said, \"I haven't found her; and also the men of the place said, 'There has been no prostitute here.'\"<\/p>

23<\/small><\/span> Judah said, \"Let her keep it, lest we be put to shame. Behold, I sent this kid, and you haven't found her.\"<\/p>

24<\/small><\/span> It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, \"Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.\" Judah said, \"Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.\"<\/p>

25<\/small><\/span> When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, \"By the man, whose these are, I am with child.\" She also said, \"Please discern whose are these - the signet, and the cords, and the staff.\"<\/p>

26<\/small><\/span> Judah acknowledged them, and said, \"She is more righteous than I, because I didn't give her to Shelah, my son.\" He knew her again no more.<\/p>

27<\/small><\/span> It happened in the time of her travail, that behold, twins were in her womb.<\/p>

28<\/small><\/span> It happened, when she travailed, that one put out a hand: and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, \"This came out first.\"<\/p>

29<\/small><\/span> It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out, and she said, \"Why have you made a breach for yourself?\" Therefore his name was called Perez.<\/p>

30<\/small><\/span> Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

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#7: A Woman Caught In The Act Of Adultery Is Brought To Jesus To Be Stoned<\/strong>
\nJohn 8:1-11<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter 8<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.\r\n<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them.\r\n<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the midst,\r\n<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> they told him, \"Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act.\r\n<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such. What then do you say about her?\"\r\n<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger.\r\n<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, \"He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.\"\r\n<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.\r\n<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.\r\n<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, \"Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?\"\r\n<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> She said, \"No one, Lord.\" Jesus said, \"Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.\"\r\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

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#6: Peter Disowns Jesus Three Times<\/strong>
\nLuke 22:54-62<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter 22<\/h4>

54<\/small><\/span> They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest's house. But Peter followed from a distance.\r\n<\/p>

55<\/small><\/span> When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard, and had sat down together, Peter sat among them.\r\n<\/p>

56<\/small><\/span> A certain servant girl saw him as he sat in the light, and looking intently at him, said, \"This man also was with him.\"\r\n<\/p>

57<\/small><\/span> He denied Jesus, saying, \"Woman, I don't know him.\"\r\n<\/p>

58<\/small><\/span> After a little while someone else saw him, and said, \"You also are one of them!\" But Peter answered, \"Man, I am not!\"\r\n<\/p>

59<\/small><\/span> After about one hour passed, another confidently affirmed, saying, \"Truly this man also was with him, for he is a Galilean!\"\r\n<\/p>

60<\/small><\/span> But Peter said, \"Man, I don't know what you are talking about!\" Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.\r\n<\/p>

61<\/small><\/span> The Lord turned, and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the Lord's word, how he said to him, \"Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times.\"\r\n<\/p>

62<\/small><\/span> He went out, and wept bitterly.\r\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

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Top 10 Scandals Honorable Mentions:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Though millions worship him now, the religious leaders of his day saw Jesus as a scandalous troublemaker deserving death. In fact, he scandalized the religious leaders so many times we couldn\u2019t even include them all.\u00a0 Here are some of our favorites:<\/p>\n

Jesus Eats With Sinners And Tax Collectors<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Luke 19:1-10<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter 19<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> He entered and was passing through Jericho.<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn't because of the crowd, because he was short.<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was to pass that way.<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, \"Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.\"<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, \"He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.\"<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, \"Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.\"<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> Jesus said to him, \"Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.\"<\/p><\/div>\n

Jesus Kicks The Money Changers Out Of The Temple<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Mark 11:1-2<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter 11<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> When they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> and said to them, \"Go your way into the village that is opposite you. Immediately as you enter into it, you will find a colt tied, on which no one has sat. Untie him, and bring him.<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> If anyone asks you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Lord needs him;' and immediately he will send him back here.\"<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> They went away, and found a colt tied at the door outside in the open street, and they untied him.<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> Some of those who stood there asked them, \"What are you doing, untying the colt?\"<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> They said to them just as Jesus had said, and they let them go.<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> They brought the colt to Jesus, and threw their garments on him, and Jesus sat on him.<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> Many spread their garments on the way, and others were cutting down branches from the trees, and spreading them on the road.<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> Those who went in front, and those who followed, cried, \"Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is coming in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!\"<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> Jesus entered into the temple in Jerusalem. When he had looked around at everything, it being now evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> The next day, when they had come out from Bethany, he was hungry.<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> Jesus told it, \"May no one ever eat fruit from you again!\" and his disciples heard it.<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> They came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple, and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of those who sold the doves.<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> He would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple.<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> He taught, saying to them, \"Isn't it written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?' But you have made it a den of robbers!\"<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, for all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> When evening came, he went forth out of the city.<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots.<\/p>

21<\/small><\/span> Peter, remembering, said to him, \"Rabbi, look! The fig tree which you cursed has withered away.\"<\/p>

22<\/small><\/span> Jesus answering said to them, \"Have faith in God.<\/p>

23<\/small><\/span> For most assuredly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' and doesn't doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says happens; he shall have whatever he says.<\/p>

24<\/small><\/span> Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.<\/p>

25<\/small><\/span> Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.<\/p><\/div>\n

Jesus Calls Out The Religious Leaders <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Matthew 23:1-39<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter 23<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> saying, \"The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses' seat.<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don't do their works; for they say, and don't do.<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> and love the chief place at feasts, the chief seats in the synagogues,<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called 'Rabbi, Rabbi' by men.<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> But don't you be called 'Rabbi,' for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ.<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> Whoever will exalt himself will be humbled, and whoever will humble himself will be exalted.<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> \"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> \"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don't enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehenna as yourselves.<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.'<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> 'Whoever will swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever will swear by the gift that is on it, he is a debtor.'<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by everything on it.<\/p>

21<\/small><\/span> He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who is living in it.<\/p>

22<\/small><\/span> He who swears by the heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits on it.<\/p>

23<\/small><\/span> Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law - justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.<\/p>

24<\/small><\/span> You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!<\/p>

25<\/small><\/span> Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.<\/p>

26<\/small><\/span> You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside of it may become clean also.<\/p>

27<\/small><\/span> Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.<\/p>

28<\/small><\/span> Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.<\/p>

29<\/small><\/span> Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,<\/p>

30<\/small><\/span> and say, 'If we had been in the days of our fathers, we should not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.'<\/p>

31<\/small><\/span> Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are sons of those who killed the prophets.<\/p>

32<\/small><\/span> Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.<\/p>

33<\/small><\/span> You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?<\/p>

34<\/small><\/span> Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them will you kill and crucify; and some of them will you scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;<\/p>

35<\/small><\/span> that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.<\/p>

36<\/small><\/span> Most assuredly I tell you, all these things will come on this generation.<\/p>

37<\/small><\/span> \"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!<\/p>

38<\/small><\/span> Behold, your house is left to you desolate.<\/p>

39<\/small><\/span> For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you will say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'\"<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

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#5: Judas Betrays Jesus With A Kiss<\/strong>
\nMatthew 26:14-50<\/em>

Chapter 26<\/h4>

14<\/small><\/span> Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests,<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> and said, \"What are you willing to give me, and I will deliver him to you?\" They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> From that time he sought opportunity to betray him.<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, \"Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?\"<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> He said, \"Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, 'The Teacher says, \"My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.\"'\"<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> The disciples did as Jesus commanded them, and they prepared the Passover.<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> Now when evening had come, he was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples.<\/p>

21<\/small><\/span> As they were eating, he said, \"Most assuredly I tell you, that one of you will betray me.\"<\/p>

22<\/small><\/span> They were exceedingly sorrowful, and each began to ask him, \"It isn't me, is it, Lord?\"<\/p>

23<\/small><\/span> He answered, \"He who dipped his hand with me in the dish, the same will betray me.<\/p>

24<\/small><\/span> The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.\"<\/p>

25<\/small><\/span> Judas, who betrayed him, answered, \"It isn't me, is it, Rabbi?\" He said to him, \"So you have said.\"<\/p>

26<\/small><\/span> As they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks for it, and broke it. He gave to the disciples, and said, \"Take, eat; this is my body.\"<\/p>

27<\/small><\/span> He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, \"Drink all of it,<\/p>

28<\/small><\/span> for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.<\/p>

29<\/small><\/span> But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father's kingdom.\"<\/p>

30<\/small><\/span> When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.<\/p>

31<\/small><\/span> Then Jesus said to them, \"All of you will be offended by me tonight, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered abroad.'<\/p>

32<\/small><\/span> But after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee.\"<\/p>

33<\/small><\/span> But Peter answered him, \"Even if all will be offended by you, I will never be offended.\"<\/p>

34<\/small><\/span> Jesus said to him, \"Most assuredly I tell you, that tonight, before the cock crows, you will deny me three times.\"<\/p>

35<\/small><\/span> Peter said to him, \"Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you.\" All of the disciples also said likewise.<\/p>

36<\/small><\/span> Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to his disciples, \"Sit here, while I go there and pray.\"<\/p>

37<\/small><\/span> He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled.<\/p>

38<\/small><\/span> Then he said to them, \"My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me.\"<\/p>

39<\/small><\/span> He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, \"My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I want, but what you want.\"<\/p>

40<\/small><\/span> He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, \"What, couldn't you watch with me for one hour?<\/p>

41<\/small><\/span> Watch and pray, that you don't enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.\"<\/p>

42<\/small><\/span> Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, \"My Father, if this cup can't pass away from me, unless I drink it, your will be done.\"<\/p>

43<\/small><\/span> He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.<\/p>

44<\/small><\/span> He left them again, went away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words.<\/p>

45<\/small><\/span> Then he came to his disciples, and said to them, \"Sleep on now, and take your rest. Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.<\/p>

46<\/small><\/span> Arise, let us be going. Behold, he who betrays me is at hand.\"<\/p>

47<\/small><\/span> While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priest and elders of the people.<\/p>

48<\/small><\/span> Now he who betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, \"Whoever I will kiss, that is he. Take him.\"<\/p>

49<\/small><\/span> Immediately he came to Jesus, and said, \"Hail, Rabbi!\" and kissed him.<\/p>

50<\/small><\/span> Jesus said to him, \"Friend, why are you here?\" Then they came and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.<\/p><\/div>\n

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#4: King Xerxes\u2019 Top Deputy Plots To Kill Queen Esther And Her Entire Race<\/strong>
\nEsther 2:17-18<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter 2<\/h4>

17<\/small><\/span> The king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> Then the king made a great feast to all his princes and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the bounty of the king.<\/p><\/div>\n

Esther 7:1-10<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter 7<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is your petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted you: and what is your request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> Then Esther the queen answered, If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondservants and bondmaids, I had held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's damage.<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> Then spoke the king Ahasuerus and said to Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that dared presume in his heart to do so?<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> Esther said, An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine [and went] into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen on the couch whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he even force the queen before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> Then said Harbonah, one of the chamberlains who were before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, stands in the house of Haman. The king said, Hang him thereon.<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.<\/p><\/div>\n

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#3: Jesus Claims To Be The Son Of God<\/strong>
\nMatthew 26:57-68<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter 26<\/h4>

57<\/small><\/span> Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas, the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.<\/p>

58<\/small><\/span> But Peter followed him from a distance, to the court of the high priest, and entered in, and sat with the officers, to see the end.<\/p>

59<\/small><\/span> Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;<\/p>

60<\/small><\/span> and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,<\/p>

61<\/small><\/span> and said, \"This man said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.'\"<\/p>

62<\/small><\/span> The high priest stood up, and answered him, \"Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?\"<\/p>

63<\/small><\/span> But Jesus held his peace. The high priest said to him, \"I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.\"<\/p>

64<\/small><\/span> Jesus said to him, \"You have said it. Nevertheless, I tell you, henceforth you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky.\"<\/p>

65<\/small><\/span> Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, \"He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.<\/p>

66<\/small><\/span> What do you think?\" They answered, \"He is worthy of death!\"<\/p>

67<\/small><\/span> Then they spit in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,<\/p>

68<\/small><\/span> saying, \"Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who hit you?\"<\/p><\/div>\n

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#2: A Virgin Named Mary Gets Pregnant Before Marriage<\/strong>
\nMatthew 1:18-25<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter 1<\/h4>

18<\/small><\/span> Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; because when his mother, Mary, had been engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, \"Joseph, you son of David, don't be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>

21<\/small><\/span> She shall bring forth a son. You shall call his name JESUS, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.\"<\/p>

22<\/small><\/span> Now all this has happened, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,<\/p>

23<\/small><\/span> \"Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;\" which is, being interpreted, \"God with us.\"<\/p>

24<\/small><\/span> Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took his wife to himself;<\/p>

25<\/small><\/span> and didn't know her sexually until she had brought forth her firstborn son. He named him JESUS.<\/p><\/div>\n

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#1: King David Fathers A Baby With A Married Woman And Then Has The Husband Killed<\/strong>
\n2 Samuel 11:1-12:25<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter 11<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> It happened, at the return of the year, at the time when kings go out [to battle], that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> It happened at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked on the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look on.<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> David send and inquired after the woman. One said, Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house.<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, I am with child.<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> David sent to Joab, [saying], Send me Uriah the Hittite. Joab sent Uriah to David.<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> When Uriah was come to him, David asked of him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> David said to Uriah, Go down to your house, and wash your feet. Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess [of food] from the king.<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and didn't go down to his house.<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> When they had told David, saying, Uriah didn't go down to his house, David said to Uriah, Haven't you come from a journey? why did you not go down to your house?<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> Uriah said to David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in booths; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field; shall I then go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> David said to Uriah, Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the next day.<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

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